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Russian hackers tried to infiltrate Dallas County elections

"We were surprised,” said Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole.

Election officials say before the elections in November, the Department of Homeland Security warned them Russian hackers were trying to gain access to their voting system, voter registration rolls, and website.

"They offered expertise in scanning the system to make sure that there were no loop holes or entries that could actually have any type of destruction to our data," Pippins-Poole said.

The good news is the hackers were not able to penetrate the voting system that actually counts the votes because Dallas County's system is old and outdated.

“We told them our voting systems were not internet based. They had no web connectivity to really change any of our votes or tabulations of vote," Pippins-Poole said.